Overview

• Getting acquainted with the Publisher screen
• Creating a publication using a wizard
• Creating a blank publication
• Using Design Sets
• Changing the magnification

Publisher essentials

• Create, save, close, open and print publications
• The importance of planning
• Working with frames
• Using layout guides, margin guides and ruler guides
• Undo and re-do
• Copy and paste techniques

Help!

• Where to turn for help
• Using the Office Assistant
• Using Publisher help

Working with tables

• Creating a table
• Selecting, inserting and deleting rows/columns
• Navigating a table
• Setting table borders
• Using BorderArt
• Merging cell

Working with text

• Creating a text frame
• Applying line colours and fill effects
• Changing the font characteristics
• Changing the character and line spacing
• Aligning the text
• Importing text
• Adding and linking additional text frames
• Navigating text frames
• Splitting text into columns
• Using Drop Caps
• Adding graphics to text
• Variable size text frames
• Changing the page layout

Using the Drawing toolbar

• Drawing lines, arrows, rectangles, squares, circles, ovals and autoshapes
• Changing the line, fill and font colour
• Using Design Objects
• Adding text to an object
• Insert a clipart or picture
• Selecting, aligning, nudging, spacing, grouping, layering, rotating and flipping objects
• Using WordArt

Mail merge

• Creating or accessing a data source
• Adding merge fields
• Previewing the merge publication
• Completing the merge